Dave Probert

Dave Probert is an Architect at the Windows Core Operating Systems Division at Microsoft Corporation. Dave specializes in OS kernel architect, and has managed kernel development for Windows, starting with the Windows 2000 release. He is currently working on the next generations of Windows.

Dave joined Microsoft in 1996, after earning his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara developing the SPACE project with Prof. John Bruno. His prior industry experience includes serving as Vice President of Software Engineering at Culler Scientific Systems, consulting for various companies on UNIX kernel internals, and working as a systems architect at Burroughs corporation designing hardware and writing microcode for the B1900.

Dave is also the architect for the Windows Academic Program. He developed both the WRK package and ProjectOZ. He has spoken to academic audience in the Asia Pacific region at the previous Windows Core workshops.

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During the keynote presentation, Dave gave an introduction of the historic background of WRK,the vision of the project, the roadmap to Windows OS development, and what academic can do to leverage WRK to help enhance the diversity in OS teaching curriculums. Late in the hand-on lab Dave led the audience using WRK, to explore the more advanced options in WRK.

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Arkady Retik

Arkady Retik is the Windows Academic Program Manager in Trustworthy Computing (TwC) , Core Operating Systems Division, at Microsoft Corporation.

Arkady joined Microsoft in 2000, and has worked on several development projects in the Windows Server’s WMI group. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2000, Arkady served for a decade as a researcher, faculty member, and professor in several universities (mainly in the UK). He taught and researched a variety of subjects in computing and engineering. Arkady established and directed the Virtual Construction Simulation Research Group at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, pioneering research in advancd visualization and VR. He holds a DSC in Computer Aided Design and Planning from Technion, IIT. He recently made a Visiting Honorary Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Arkady helped develope the Windows Core CRK resources, and has been working with the academic around the world in the adoption of the Windows Core program. He has spoken to academic audience in the Asia Pacific Region at the previous Windows Core workshops.

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During his presentation Arkady gave introduction of the CRK, how to leverage CRK for curriculum development, and also cover what’s new in the WRK/CRK installation. In the hand-on lab, Arkady led the audience to explore the tools and resources.

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Aimin Pan

Aimin Pan is a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He received Ph.D in computer science from Peking University. His current research interests lie in the areas of system security and interactive performance evaluation and measurement. Prior to joining Microsoft Research Asia in 2004, he worked at Peking University, and taught the courses of “component technology” and “network and information security” for graduate students, and also directed the security information lab at Institute of Computer Science and Technology. Aimin Pan is also a lecture of Tsinghua talented class, and teaches the course of “foundations of programming and algorithms” for the class.

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In this presentation, Aimin Pan shared his experiences on working with several faculties to develop the initial version of WinCore TRK. Based on the experiences of mentoring the students from different top universities in China, he also talked about the OS courses in China and what is needed when introducing WRK into OS course. As a researcher whose projects are mostly on Windows platform, he explained what are supposed to be grasped by students in OS courses, thus the students can be adapted to industry better.

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CHEN Xiangqun

Professor CHEN Xiangqun is the Vice Dean of the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science of Peking University. Committee member of China Computer Federation, Vice Chairman and secretary of Beijing Computer Federation. Her main research interests are: Operating system, Software Engineering. As the lead of Wincore project in China Prof. CHEN has rich experience in OS teaching, wrote and translated several OS textbooks.

SHI Guangshun

Professor SHI Guangshun is an Associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at NanKai University. Prior to joining NanKai in 2003, he received both B.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from NanKai University. His research interests lie in pattern recognition, machine translation and biometrics, published at major international and conferences, including ICDAR, ICIP, CIS and AIPR.

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Title: China Pioneer WinCore project experience

In this presentation firstly, Prof. CHEN introduced the whole picture of WRK research program in China, specifically the 6 pioneering professors’ work on OS experiments development based on WRK and their Os teaching experiences sharing. Secondly Professor Shi reported his experiences at NanKai University of using WRK as OS experiment environment. More than 120 students completed Internal Process Communication (IPC) experiment and Virtual Memory (VM) experiment under WRK. Two students will demo their experiment result.

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Seung-won Hwang

Professor Seung-won Hwang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Prior to joining POSTECH in 2005, she received both M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in Computer Science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Her research interests lie in personalized data retrieval, using ranking, categorization, and skyline queries, published at major international journals and conferences, including ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, SIGMOD, and ICDE.

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Title: Teaching operating systems with Windows: POSTECH experiences.

This presentation by Professor Hwang reports her experiences at POSTECH, Korea of complementing the traditional Unix-based operating system curriculum with Windows OS as supplementary content. The goals were two-fold: First, Prof. Hwang aimed at making the learning of operating system concepts more relevant to students, by using Windows which is a dominant operating system choice among students. Second,

Prof. Hwang aimed at making the course more diverse, by presenting alternative design examples to Unix based instructional materials such that students can learn from comparing and contrasting. This presentation also covers student responses to this course offering, suggesting both how this course was effective in achieving the above goals and how it can be further improved for future offerings. Prof. Hwang’s experiences and findings were also presented as a poster at iTiCSE 2007.

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Shiao-Li Tsao

Professor Shiao-Li Tsao is a professor at the Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Prof. Tsao received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in engineering science from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1995, 1996 and 1999 respectively.

His research interests include mobile communication and wireless network, embedded software and system, and multimedia system. From 1996 to 1997, he was a research assistant of Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica.

He visited Bell Labs, Lucent technologies, NJ, USA, in the summer of 1998. from1999 to 2003, Dr. Tsao joined CCL, ITRI as a researcher and a section manager.

 Dr. Tsao is currently an assistant professor of computer science and information engineering of National Chiao Tung University. Prof. Tsao has published more than 40 international journal and conference papers, and held or applied 11 US, 3 Germany, 12 R.O.C. patents. Prof. Tsao received the Research Achievement Awards of ITRI in 2000 and 2004, the Outstanding Project Award of Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) of R.O.C. in 2003, the Advanced Technologies Award of MOEA of R.O.C. in 2003, and the Research Paper Award of ITRI in 2002. He is a member of IEEE and IEEE ComSoc.

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Title: Teaching OS with CRK/WRK: The NCTU Experience

In this presentation, professor Tsao will share an overview of the OS course at NCTU in Taiwan, and the design of his lecture and hands-on Labs. He will also discuss the students feedbacks to the courses, the lessons learned from this experience, and his suggestions about using WRK/CRK for curriculum development.

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Roland Yap

Professor Roland Yap is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. He has worked extensively on Constraint Programming, in particular, the CLP(R) system. His current research interests are in the area of constraints, programming languages, bioinformatics, and security. He obtained his B.S and PhD from Monash University, Australia.

Session Abstract:
Title: Some Reflections on Teaching Operating Systems

In this presentation, professor Yap will discuss some thoughts on teaching operating systems. Some issues which will be touched on are dealing with large class sizes, pedagogical versus industry issues, practical implementation issues, and the use of mainstream operating systems.

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Geok See Ng

Professor Geok See Ng is an Associate Professor in the Division of Computer Science, School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Professor Ng received BMaths with Major in Honours Computer Science and Minor in Combinatorics & Optimization and Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in 1983. He received Master of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 1985. He then further obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He also obtained the Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching in Higher Education, from National Institute of Education, Singapore while he worked at the university. He has taught the course Computer Vision and Image Processing for 7 years, and Operating Systems for 18 years. He is a senior member of IEEE, and member of INS, ACM and SPIE. He has published books on Operating Systems, 2 book chapters and over 120 papers in international conferences and journals. He is listed in the Who’s Who in the World 1996 and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 1998-1999.

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itle: Windows and Taxonomy of Teaching Operating Systems – A Nanyang Experience

In this presentation, Professor Ng will discuss the OS curriculum at Nanyang Technological University. He will cover the topics about the overall OS course content structure there, and how Windows topics with source code can help to add the diversity of the OS content. He will also talk about how to verify student’s understandings of the OS content that being taught. Professor Ng will then discuss a comparative study of the Windows Core CRK and other OS materials such as Nachos that has been used in his OS teachings.

Lei Wang

Professor Lei Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) and works in operating systems, complier and software engineering. He received Ph.D. at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1998. Dr. Wang received the second-rate award of advancement in Science and Technology from Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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Title: Experiment on Windows Working Set.

During his presentation, Professor Lei will give introduction of the working set page replacement by using WRK and show how to develop experiments to modify the replacement algorithm for OS course.

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CHEN Yu

CHEN Yu is an Associate professor in Media Institute at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He received his PhD degree in National University of Defense Technology. His research areas include operating systems, embedded systems, pervasive computing, and parallel computing, published tens of SCI, EI, and ISTP indexed papers.

Session Abstract:
Title: Experiment on Processor Scheduling.

The purpose of this experiment is to understand the process/thread control data structure and the processor scheduling mechanism in WRK by analyzing and tracing the running state of the processor scheduling code in WRK and designing appropriate test cases.

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